Household, Geoffrey

Household, Geoffrey

▪ British author
in full  Geoffrey Edward West Household 
born November 30, 1900, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
died October 4, 1988, Banbury, Oxfordshire

      British novelist best known for Rogue Male (1939; also published as Man Hunt), a psychological thriller about an aristocratic big-game hunter who tracks down an Adolf Hitler-like dictator.

      Household was educated at Clifton College in Bristol (1914–19) and at Magdalen College at Oxford (1919–22), where he won honours in English literature. After working in Romania (1922–26), Spain (1926–29), and New York City (1929), he returned to England to sell printer's ink throughout Europe, the Middle East, and South America—all later settings for his novels. During this time he wrote stories for The Atlantic Monthly which were met with considerable success, and in 1935 he began to write full-time. His first novel, The Terror of Villadonga (1936; revised and reissued as The Spanish Cave), is a work for children. After publishing The Third Hour (1937), The Salvation of Pisco Gabar (1938), and Rogue Male, he served in the Intelligence Corps in Greece, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq and earned the rank of lieutenant colonel. He wrote more than 20 novels, as well as several collections of short stories, juvenile books, and an autobiography, Against the Wind (1958). Rogue Justice, a sequel to Rogue Male, was published in 1982.

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